TV Shows Only You Seem To Remember

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I do remember St. Elsewhere. I wasn't really a fan, but it was quite popular at the time.

Wasn't Alternative 3 something to do with people being sent to Mars rather than life being found there, but the memories of this one are very sketchy.

Anyone remember the Billy Liar TV sitcom series from the early 70s?

[darren]

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Dr kildare and perry mason i remember well.

Anyone remember st elsewhere.
It had mark harmon and denzel washington in it.

the liars
the corridor people
big breadwinner hog
adventures of don quick
mr rose
man in room 17
strange world of gurney slade
orlando
sexton blake
alternative three
the partners
cannonball
longstreet
n.y.p.d.
Perry mason
dr kildare
ben casey
project u.f.o.
Kodiak
amazing world of kreskin
peyton place

[zabadak]

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THE LIARS
THE CORRIDOR PEOPLE
BIG BREADWINNER HOG
ADVENTURES OF DON QUICK
MR ROSE
MAN IN ROOM 17
STRANGE WORLD OF GURNEY SLADE
ORLANDO
SEXTON BLAKE
ALTERNATIVE THREE
THE PARTNERS
CANNONBALL
LONGSTREET
N.Y.P.D.
PERRY MASON
Dr KILDARE
BEN CASEY
PROJECT U.F.O.
KODIAK
AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN
PEYTON PLACE

I remember these:

SEXTON BLAKE - Can't recall the details tho...
ALTERNATIVE THREE - An April Fool's joke about life being found on Mars
AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN - IIRC he was a bit like Derren Brown...
PEYTON PLACE - My parents used to watch it, too soppy for me!

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Angliaknight, I remember most of those programmes on your list. Longstreet was typical of the detective series of the time except that he was blind. I think Bruce Lee was in the pilot teaching him martial arts. I really used to like the series.

Project UFO was shown at tea-time in the ATV area. The stories were based, I believe, on actual reports of UFOs.

I can just about remember the Sexton Blake series. I am not sure if any episodes are still in existence. I seem to recall it was set in the 1920s. Valiant comic featured SB comic strip adventures at the same time and there was a set of collector cards--3 or 4 cards + gum per packet--and I still have some.

I had forgotten about Kreskin until I saw it on your list. Can't recall too much about it--was he a magician or was it something about psychic phenomena?

Orlando was a children's adventure series. I think he wore a bobble hat and had a strip in TV Action or TV Comic or something similar.

Fynger, I am a little too young to have seen Adam Adamant on TV but I have the series on DVD--all the episodes that still exist, that is. Obviously made as a rival to The Avengers, I thought it was a good series.

[fynger]

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Adam Adamant

[angliaknight]

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THE LIARS
THE CORRIDOR PEOPLE
BIG BREADWINNER HOG
ADVENTURES OF DON QUICK
MR ROSE
MAN IN ROOM 17
STRANGE WORLD OF GURNEY SLADE
ORLANDO
SEXTON BLAKE
ALTERNATIVE THREE
THE PARTNERS
CANNONBALL
LONGSTREET
N.Y.P.D.
PERRY MASON
Dr KILDARE
BEN CASEY
PROJECT U.F.O.
KODIAK
AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN
PEYTON PLACE

[staffslad]

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I remember Sledge Hammer! It was a great show and very funny, but didn't seem to last long. It reminded me somewhat of the Police Squad! series.

[zabadak]

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HERES ANOTHER ONE.
SLEDGEHAMMER FROM AROUND 1986.

https://youtu.be/cQl6r0fqRAI

SO FUNNY.

Oh yes, this was a cracker!

Trust me, I know what I'm doing!

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used to watch this show darren. i think it was only on for a couple of seasons.

HERES ANOTHER ONE.
SLEDGEHAMMER FROM AROUND 1986.

https://youtu.be/cQl6r0fqRAI

SO FUNNY.

[Richard1978]

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Forgot to mention my Dad used to nickname Marcus Tandy "The Reptile".

Does anyone Remember Castles? It wasn't on for long & was never that popular.

[agfagaevart]

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Yes i do, they wanted to build a rocket,go to the moon and bring all the junk back as salvage. These 55min American shows aired in kids tv slots around the regions, other titles include Voyage to the bottom of the sea amongst other Irwin Allen series and Project u.f.o. and a short lived series called Sierra...

I remember Sierra being shown during the long hot boring summer holidays...

[darren]

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HERES ANOTHER ONE.
SLEDGEHAMMER FROM AROUND 1986.

https://youtu.be/cQl6r0fqRAI

SO FUNNY.

[darren]

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YES YOU ARE INDEED CORRECT YOU SMART BOY.
PLAYED BY KATHY PITKIN.


Although the show featured many professional actors, such as Patricia Brake and Jesse Birdsall, many of the cast were inexperienced actors whose limitations were clearly exposed on such a new and ambitious project (German-born Kai Maurer had apparently never acted on stage or screen previously before being cast in the show). Prior to filming, some of the cast did not even know what a read-through was; the acting was derided as amateurish.while the attempt to appear more EUROPEAN' by having people speaking other languages without subS or bizarre/unconvincing accents was met by viewers with incomprehension and ridicule.

IT TOOK THE PLACE OF WOGAN ON MONDAY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY.

RAN FROM JULY 6TH 92 TO JULY 9TH 93.

Darren, I remember ElDorado and all the hype surrounding it, and also how fast it sank. I think the only character I can recall is Fizz--hope I've got that right.

[zabadak]

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There was a kids' show in the 90s (I think) which was called The Quest (I think) - Canadian (I think). Can't find any info!

It was about a young boy who hurt his head (somehow) and was knocked unconscious. The story revolved around him running around a world in his head, in order to escape back to reality...

[Richard1978]

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I remember there was a good documentary about Eldorado a few years ago.

There was a lot of messing about between the original concept & it going in front of the camera.

Also a lot of the actors were newcomers without much experience of working on TV.

I did think launching it in the summer was a bad idea, when audiences are low because people are on holiday.